Conspiracy theorist Jones earned a five-star mocking from late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday, after Jones suggested that a skit on Kimmel’s show — during which Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton debunked rumors about her health by opening a jar of pickles — was rigged.
After Clinton’s feat of strength on national television, Jones filmed a video breaking down the pickle jar — or, as he kept saying, “can” — opening, casting the cold shade of doubt on the display.
“There’s no ‘pop’ when she opens it, and she acts like she has to turn it all the way around, like she’s opening a can of peanut butter,” Jones put forth in the video. “But anyone who’s opened a sealed can of pickled vegetables … knows there is a pop.”
“It is completely and totally fake,” Jones concluded.
“I agree, it’s a can-spiracy,” Kimmel wisecracked.
The late-night host first sought to debunk Jones’ theory by showing surveillance footage of the pickle jar’s whereabouts before Hillary Clinton opened it, to show that it hadn’t been tampered with.
Unfortunately, the footage revealed that Kimmel’s head of security, Guillermo, couldn’t resist opening the jar treating himself to a pickle.
At which point Kimmel had to ‘fess up — and issue a warning to Jones.
“You just had to keep digging, didn’t you, Alex?” Kimmel said, as the lights on set dramatically lowered. “The plan was so simple; all Hillary had to do was open a jar of pickles, and the White House would be all ours; mine and hers,” Kimmel said.
“This went all the way up to Vlasic. But you just couldn’t leave it alone, could you?” Kimmel continued. “With your twisting and your popping and your poking your nose where it shouldn’t be poking.”
Unfortunately, with the pickle out of the can, Kimmel was forced to eliminate the main witness to the conspiracy. And the dills got killed.
Watch Kimmel take on Jones — and blow away a jar of pickles — in the video.
Hillary Clinton's 5 Best Donald Trump Attack Lines (Photos)
Hillary Clinton has spent the last week criticizing Donald Trump, and we asked experts which of her attack lines might land with voters.
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5. "So let's take a look at what he has done. He's written a lot of books about business -- they all seem to end at Chapter 11," Clinton said in a speech Monday, drawing huge applause from her supporters.
Politico national politics reporter Eli Stokols told TheWrap that this is a crafty approach, but it could get old.
“It’s the kind of line that is good the first time because it has a ring to it, it’s kind of clever and she’s sort of saying something with a wink and a nod,” Stokols Said.
“She’s going to make to is to redefine him not as a private entrepreneurial success, but as more of a poster child for some of the bad business excesses. It’s a really interesting strategy,” University of Southern California clinical professor of communications Gordon Stables told TheWrap.
4. “Just like he shouldn’t have his finger on the button, he shouldn’t have his hands on our economy,” Clinton said referring to Trump’s foreign policy ideas and his economic proposals.
“It’s about his character… she obviously wanted to highlight that there is something about his disposition or his temperament that basically says, ‘he doesn’t have the patience or wisdom or character to occupy the kind of crisis in the White House,’” Stables said.
3. “I had my researchers and my speech writers send me information” on Trump “and then I’d say, ‘Really? He really said that?’ And they’d send me all the background and the video clip,” Clinton said.
“I actually thought that was the most effective thing that you heard from her in terms of articulating this, because it personalizes it, it conveys that she’s someone who is a real person,” Stokols said. "It’s something that some voters will be able to relate to personally and it seemed convincing.”
2. "I have this old-fashioned idea that if you're running for president, you should say what you want to do and how you'll get it done”
Stables feels that she could be looking to reach Bernie Sanders supporters that still feel frustrated.
“There are voters with a different economic critique… there is something they don’t like with the way Trump did business and she’s going directly at it,” he said.
1. "The Chamber of Commerce and labor unions, Mitt Romney and Elizabeth Warren, economists on the right and the left and the center, all agree: Trump would throw us back into recession," Clinton said.
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“Clinton is defining the campaign on her terms… she’s positioning herself to make the argument she’s going to make in November. Trump is still fighting to define and differentiate what to say. He ran a very smart campaign to defeat the other Republican primary competitors,” Stables said.